QUALIA 1)5)
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The inner states of perception that we describes as qualities
Examples are the "blueness" of blue, or the "saltness" of salt. The ways these inner states appear (and in specific cases become refined, as for ex. in the perception of shades of green by a painter) is still quite unexplained. It is however the bedrock of our inner representation of reality and the source of the communication ability between humans who are supposed to have equal or equivalent inner perception of "saltness" or "blueness" or any other psychological percept
This subject has been extensively explored by G. EDELMAN and J. SEARLE, for example
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- 1) General information
- 2) Methodology or model
- 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
- 4) Human sciences
- 5) Discipline oriented
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]
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